important and compelling social movements of the 1960s. Less recognised is that another movement, one ... At its best, feminism is about justice. It calls us to a certain kind of attentiveness. So, too, ...

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that people will prefer sustainability and social justice to the gratification of their present desires. ...

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the German Greens): ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy, and peace ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

election. Under Rudd – on the basis of a social democratic, social justice and environmental agenda, capable ... to implement practical social-democratic reform. In contemporary Australia there are at least four great holes in the social welfare state. Families struggling with mental illness or with major disability are cruelly ...

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of social justice and opportunity. Even if it was more symbolic than real, millions of black Americans ... Bush, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Senate, Social Justice, The Global Financial Crisis) ... as a social organiser in Chicago’s all-black South Side; and, then, as a politician – first in the Illinois ...

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Kentridge was expected to become a lawyer himself, and presumably to fight for social justice through ... Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Social Justice, South Africa, Theatre, William Kentridge) ... in society; they are social and political beings, subject to laws and witnesses to injustice just like ...

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also had strong ethics and a sense of social justice ...

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Jack Marx There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant ... of a bull, the barrister trading his cape for prison garb somehow tells of a world where justice knows ... circuit. Moreover, Fraser’s social conscience appears to have been engineered by committee; a little ...

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trials for sex crimes and argues that, if he is extradited, justice cannot be seen to be done. ... recorded in Robertson’s 1998 book  Th e Justice Game . In his North London kitchen one rainy ... is somehow judged to be redolent of elitism or, worse still, being a sell-out. Former Justice Michael ...

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advocate. He also had strong ethics and a sense of social justice. He opposed sensationalist journalism, ...

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which was now dominant over the social.” No social justice issue, however compelling, would ... and ’70s, one of the new frontiers of social justice. Deinstitutionalisation was a central part ... Commission, Psychotherapy, Social Justice, Tasmania, The Greens, Tony Abbott) ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2011-08-31 22:34 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

of good global citizenship and social justice—it would most likely also suffer a no less decisive defeat ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-13 09:13 - 48 comments - 0 attachments

But there is no denying we’ve got some social problems right now.” As I near Alice Springs, I spend the night ... figures collected by the Territory’s Department of Justice reveal that consumption remains 14% below ... Alliance for Action on Alcohol – a coalition of doctors, health policy experts and organisations, social ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2011-10-10 13:54 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

is in documentary-making – he explored Cuban music in Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and American blues in The Soul ... the film finally doesn’t do her work justice. * Pina Bausch was never to see her tribute film; ...

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contemporary society were shaped by the Whitlam government. The landmark social justice campaigns of the ’60s ... Fraser, Racial discrimination, Referendum, Senate, Social Justice, World War II) ... shifts: the historic compromise between socialism and capitalism in the postwar period that led ...

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She will be an exceptionally effective voice in the Senate for social justice and the environment. ...

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to Tahrir Square the revolution does not end with Mubarak’s removal. They want to see justice done for past ... of a series of failures in Middle Eastern politics. Secular Arab nationalism (married with socialism) failed ...

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this as ambitious doesn’t quite do it justice. The central question of this project – What explains the development ... In the language of evolutionary biologists, the human brain is hardwired for social co-operation based on kin ...

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of British history. His desire to heal the hundred-year breach between British liberalism and socialism, his ... been a formidable obstacle to peace and justice in Ireland for centuries. From any perspective, Blair’s ... the notion that Labour was moving from state socialism to empty careerism. In a party as ideological ...

The Monthly - Lindsay Tanner - 2011-09-06 11:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

bomb-throwing radicals but we were social justice oriented.” For Kristina Kerscher, as the daughter ... for which she insists she joined the party – “fairness, equity, social justice, equality of opportunity”. ... Election, History of Australia, Kristina Keneally, Morris Iemma, Social Justice) ...

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“Vatican II-type” Catholic upbringing (social justice values, and a familiarity with the iconography ... York City, Pop music, Social Justice, Theatre) ... justice here to her rising enthusiasm for the soup, but suffice to say she swaps the dress for a red ...

The Monthly - Anna Funder - 2010-09-02 14:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

that the corporate trend is far from uniform in Labor ranks. After leaving politics, former Justice Minister Michael ... of their portfolios after leaving parliament. One-time Social Security Minister Peter Baldwin co-founded Debategraph, a social enterprise that has developed “a debate visualisation tool” that aims “to increase ...

The Monthly - Julian Morrow - 2011-09-15 12:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

international conferences, champion of economic and social development as a factor in international affairs, ... does this remarkable career full justice. Lyons came to office with the task of steering Australia ...

The Monthly - Hugh White - 2011-03-07 12:34 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

him to traipse around his studio with exasperation and stupefaction. Merely social conservative before ... formidable of which is the currency trader and social activist George Soros, whom Beck appears to believe ... to protest against Obama’s mild Keynesian and social market reform proposals as interchangeably socialist, ...

The Monthly - Guy Rundle - 2011-03-07 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

when powerful new social movements – for global justice, peace and refugee rights – intersected ...

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